Barcelona World Race

The Barcelona World Race is the first only double-handed (two-crew) regatta around the world. This is a non-stop regatta with some outside assistance permitted, although subject to rules and penalties.

The start will be given on 31st of December 2010 at 13:00 (local time GMT+1) opposite Hotel W in the Port of Barcelona. The arrival of the leading entries is forecast for the end of March 2011.

The course is from Barcelona to Barcelona via three capes: Good Hope, Leeuwin and Horn, Cook Strait, putting Antarctica to starboard. The length of the course is approximately 25,000 nautical miles (46,300 km) along the Great Circle line, the shortest route traced on a map across the world.

Fuente: Barcelona World Race oficial website

Christmas lights in the barcelona's streets

Like every year, Barcelona fills the streets of lights to welcome the Christmas and New Year. This year, more than 60km of brightly colored lights will make you feel immersed in a world of fantasy.

Take the advantage of the night to go out and enjoy it!

Fira de Santa Llucia

This Fira of Santa Llucia begins in late November or early December, with more than 270 stands ordered by sectors depending on what they sell (Nativities and figures, greenery, and crafts) and located in front of the Pla de la Seu (the Cathedral square), on Avinguda de la Catedral.

The sellers offer you, as they have for time out of mind, all the products you need to decorate your home for the Christmas season, and will give you a warm welcome in the hope that you will visit the Fira as often as you want as cheerfully and enthusiastically as them.

Working days: from 10:30 to 20:30
Holidays and vigils: from 10:30 to 21:30

11hs of Music!!!!

This year, you can enjoy of 11hs of music in the Conservatori de Municipal de Música de Barcelona.

The place is located in Bruc street number 112, at only 2 blocks from our Casa Maca Guest House.

The concert will be next 18th of December from 11:00hs to 22:00hs, and you will enjoy performances on viola, cello, piano, flutes, saxophones, guitars, etc.

A pleasure to the ear!

Hospital Sant Pau, a beautiful example of modernist architecture

The Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau dates from the year 1401, when the six existing hospitals in Barcelona merged. This is how the Hospital de la Santa Creu was born. At the end of the 19th Century, as a result of the growth of the city and breakthroughs in medicine, the Hospital had become too small and a construction on a new building was considered.


There is a Modernism Route Information Desk at Sant Pau open from 9.30 am to 1.30 pm, Monday to Sunday. Information is available on activities related to modernist heritage in general, and about the architect Lluis Domènech i Montaner in particular.

The Sant Pau Hospital is open for guided tours from
Monday to Sunday in several languages: .
10.00 am (English), 10.30 am (French), 11.00 am (English), 11.30 am (Spanish),
12.00 noon (English), 12.30 pm (Catalan) and 1.00 pm (English).

The Hospital is close to sagrada familia, located in Modernist Centre
C. Sant Antoni Maria Claret number 167

Fuente: web oficial del Hospital de la Santa Creu

Artists jewelry in exhibition

The approach by artists to the world of jewellery is the central theme of this exhibition. In it you can admire more than 300 works by Catalan as well as international artists who led the different trends that proliferated during the fertile 20th century.
The MNAC has gathered original designs by Hector Guimard, Josep Llimona, Manolo Hugué, Pablo Gargallo, Salvador Dalí, Georges Braque, Alexander Calder, Pablo Picasso and others.

The items of jewellery being exhibited give us a picture in small format of the artistic character of their creators and at the same time strike a dialogue with other works by them (paintings, sculptures, photographs, fabrics and art objects), thereby highlighting this less well known facet and creating an interdisciplinary exchange amongst the arts.


Date: from 27th of October to 13rd of February 2011 in the MNAC (Plaça Espanya)
Price: € 5.50

Font: MNAC website

jewelry in exhibition